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health literacy

health literacy

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English

Etymology

Introduced in a 1975 paper by Scott K. Simonds, Professor of Health Education at the University of Michigan.^[1]

Noun

health literacy (uncountable)

Agility in obtaining, evaluating, and applying health information.

Derived terms

Translations

agility to find, assess and apply health information

Chinese:
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Finnish: terveysosaaminen
German: Gesundheitskompetenz f
Swedish: hälsolitteracitet c

See also

References

^ Simonds, Scott K. (1974) “Health education as social policy”, in Health Education & Behavior, volume 2, →DOI, page 9 of 1–10

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